alanjjohnstone
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No doubt China will get the message
Australia will expand its military by around 30% by 2040,
https://www.dw.com/en/australia-to-expand-defense-force-by-nearly-a-third/a-61075764
ALB, we are piggie in the middle of a propaganda war where both sides tell lies.
Russia has set up its own fact-checker website but it doesn’t mean it can be relied upon
If anybody has the time, there is reverse image search
Not an iron-clad guarantee but should reassurE you a little bit, AC
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he did not believe that Russia’s standoff with the West over Ukraine would lead to nuclear war.
“I don’t want to believe, and I do not believe, that a nuclear war could start,” he told a news conference After meeting Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
Lavrov also dismissed the prospect of an attack on any Baltic nation, saying the suggestions from the West are “old hoaxes.”
With Russian news outlets suffering restricted coverage, i note the BBC now shifts its focus to China’s CGTN as being pro-Russian
Watching a video today posted by China's People's Daily newspaper to a mainland audience, which it says shows Russia is providing humanitarian aid to Ukrainians. Says it was filmed in Kharkiv, and that the supplies came from the Tula Oblasthttps://t.co/BBOS8NZCgN pic.twitter.com/auVjElKDdB
— Kerry Allen 凯丽 (@kerrya11en) March 9, 2022
Will it be suppressed also?
I also read that some commentators now seek UN ‘peacekeeper’ intervention
https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/field-notes/Ukraine-The-Economic-Consequences-of-the-War
Ukraine: The Economic Consequences of the War
By Michael Roberts
“Because Putin has not played ball with American interests, just like Saddam’s Iraq, Assad’s Syria, or Chavez’s Venezuela, the US (with the rather reluctant support of the EU) has strode in to isolate and surround Russia militarily and squeeze its economy. Ukraine has become a pawn in this confrontation between Western imperialism and Russian crony capitalism. It is suffering like all small states in geopolitical confrontations—such is the intertwining of politics and economics.”Reports of serious violence against Ukrainian protesters have been limited, for the most part Russian forces seem to be tensely watching. But some local mayors were facing a dilemma – how much to encourage their citizens to take to the streets.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60670173
“Our people need to protest but they also need to save their lives,” said Federov, the Melitopol mayor. “I have asked them – please do not go near the Russian soldiers, go around them.”
Vadym Gaev, the mayor of Novopskov, a town near Donbas, told the BBC there had been daily protests but they had stopped three days ago when Russian soldiers shot three protestors – non-fatally – and beat another. Gaev said the Russian troops told an intermediary they had authorisation to shoot protesters, so there should be no more protests.
Novopskov appeared to be an example of a strange and uneasy scenario playing out in some parts of Ukraine, where local Ukrainian officials were continuing to function in some form but Russian military forces were in control. In the occupied city of Starobilsk, nearby, mayor Yana Litvinova was also working remotely, she said.
“A new ‘administration’ has been appointed. The only thing we know is that it is going around government buildings and asking people to co-operate, and they are refusing.”
Two Russian trucks with humanitarian markings came into the city centre last week and attempted to hand out food, but they also brought a film crew. Nearly everyone refused, she said. They were filming and people said actors arrived to take the food,” Ivan Federov, the mayor of Melitopol, said he had heard about these ‘humanitarian convoys’ too. But there were “no real Russian trucks and no real Russian food,” he said.
How I feel sorry for the Russian oligarchs.
Ferrari and Lamborghini announced they will not sell their cars to them.
Rolex joined Gucci in withdrawing their “must-have” finery.
Oh, damn this war…
Meanwhile, as it was for Venezuela, Iran may benefit in their embargo being relaxed so to get more oil on to the international market.
But on a serious note, WHO has said health facilities have been attacked and medicines are in short supply.
Why isn’t there more demand for those to be sent to Ukraine than bombs and bullets?
How I feel sorry for the Russian oligarchs.
Ferrari and Lamborghini announced they will not sell their cars to them.
Rolex joined Gucci in withdrawing their “must-have” finery.
Oh, damn this war…
Meanwhile, as it was for Venezuela, Iran may benefit in their embargo being relaxed so to get more oil on to the international market
250 advocacy groups representing seniors, people with disabilities, doctors, and other constituencies made clear Tuesday that they’re not remotely satisfied with the Biden administration’s rebrand of a Trump-era pilot program that allows private industry to gain a foothold in traditional Medicare.
The Biden administration announced that instead of terminating the Trump administration’s Medicare pilot program—as physicians and progressive activists demanded—it is moving ahead with the program under a different name and a slightly different structure. That approach won applause from the healthcare industry
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FfPaEn-JwdEjXOkOc6ODwc066XZzM5wL08VH0-4olOQ/edit
Zelensky is being declared a living saint by the media. Churchillian is a favoured adjective.
They ignore Zelenskyy’s hyperbolic claims of Ukrainian successes, his determination to sacrifice civilians in the war, and they ignore his efforts to widen the war into a European one.
He will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
People need to contemplate their children as starving to death in a food shortage wasteland, AC.
THAT reality is not being expressed by the media.
Despite the headlines, the small print is that it is a 9-month gradual phase-out of Russian energy imports. And the EU to gradually wean itself from Russian dependency.
Well, I know if I was Russian, what I would do…why wait, turn off the gas tap right now and sell whatever oil at discount to China
I wonder how long before the environmentalists add their voice of support that it is a nail in the coffin of fossil fuels.
But more worrisome is the impending food crises across the world
Book Review
Marcello Musto’s ‘The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography’
https://countercurrents.org/2022/03/the-last-years-of-karl-marx-an-intellectual-biography/
A silver lining for Venezuela?
Discussions on lifting the oil sanctions that the US imposed
